Horror

March 14, 2022 3:45 pm By Nadia Vella Hello, welcome to 2022, where nothing and no one is off-limits when it comes to reboots, reunions, and sequels no one asked for. However, Beetlejuice might be the one exception for people who are hesitant to the idea of their beloved ’80s and ’90s movies and TV

First revealed last October, developer Soleil and publisher 110 Industries’ upcoming slice-and-dice action game Wanted: Dead has unveiled a new trailer at the SXSW Gaming Awards that doubles down on the bloody dismemberment and gunplay. All set to Bella and the Switchblades’ “The Wild One”, the trailer captures the fun 80s action movie feel with

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with Kwan branching off to work on television shows like FX’s Legion and Scheinert directing a feature film on his own in 2019’s The Death of Dick Long (review). Six years

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with Kwan branching off to work on television shows like FX’s Legion and Scheinert directing a feature film on his own in 2019’s The Death of Dick Long (review). Six years

Playing at SXSW this month, the Australian horror movie Sissy, written and directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes, has been acquired by Shudder, Variety reports today. Variety notes in their report this afternoon, “Shudder will be the exclusive streamer for the film in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.” “Directors Hannah Barlow and

The latest actor to sign on for the Sam Raimi-produced action thriller Boy Kills World is Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Deadline is reporting this afternoon. Deadline notes, “Michelle Dockery will play the sister of the film’s Van der Koy family. Melanie is a satirical powerhouse and sociopath who tries to project a powerful cohesive family

With SXSW 2022 on the horizon, let’s talk horror premieres… This week brings the 29th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, from March 11-20, with a jam-packed lineup that’s brimming with genre offerings. In addition, this year, the acclaimed program will offer both in-person and online screenings. SXSW 2022 features

Aliens are headed to the arctic in the upcoming sci-fi invasion film Slash/Back, and the first clip today gives us our first introduction to the teen heroes doing battle with aliens. In Slash/Back, “Maika and her ragtag friends discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet, and it’s up to them to fight back. Utilizing

It looks like the next video game franchise to make the leap to the screen is God of War, with Deadline reporting that Amazon Prime Video is in talks for a live action TV series! Deadline’s report notes, “I hear the series adaptation comes from The Expanse creators/executive producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and The Wheel of

Looking to spice up your Dying Light 2 play on PC with some mods? Some of the more recent mods released improve the game’s dismemberment system, improve its parkour mechanics, and even add a Nightmare Plus difficulty mode. Starting things off is ISIKplay’s Improved Dismemberment mod. The modder notes that the “physics and animation” of

Kaizen Game Works’ murder mystery game Paradise Killer will finally be making the jump to the PlayStation and Xbox later this month. Originally released for PC via Steam and the Nintendo Switch back in 2020, Paradise Killer will be headed to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series on March 16, reports

In what could easily be the biggest news bomb of the year, Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will both write and direct a brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios, reports THR. The project is described as “an original standalone feature”, which is a breath of fresh air

Kaizen Game Works’ murder mystery game Paradise Killer will finally be making the jump to the PlayStation and Xbox later this month. Originally released for PC via Steam and the Nintendo Switch back in 2020, Paradise Killer will be headed to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series on March 16, reports

It’s Day Four of the virtual Toy Fair 2022 celebration from Trick or Treat Studios, and today brings some extra fun reveals for the company’s The Return of the Living Dead license. Based on the fan favorite 1985 zombie-comedy, we’re getting a 1/6 scale Tarman action figure from Trick or Treat Studios, of course one of

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Mick Garris’ lesser-known Stephen King adaptation, Riding the Bullet. As of 2022, I think it’s safe to say that Stephen King is still the undisputed monarch of horror adaptations. However, while everyone has heard of Carrie and Misery, most of his massive cinematic catalog is comprised

First shown off last year, NECA is celebrating 40 years of The Evil Dead with a brand new Ash Williams figure, depicting Bruce Campbell as he was seen in the original horror classic. This figure is particularly notable considering previous Ash Williams figures were always based on the Evil Dead sequels and, more recently, the

March 2, 2022 1:02 pm By Nadia Vella Thanks to fiction, 112 Ocean Avenue became the most famous ‘haunted’ house in the world. The book by Ric Osuna reveals judicial irregularities and scams that led to the legend around the notorious massacre. It is 3.15am on November 13, 1974. A 23-year-old man, Ronald DeFeo, Jr.

We’re always suckers for Lovecraftian video games, and Drop of Pixel’s upcoming Underworld Dreams: The False King is no exception. Based on Lovecraftian Mythos and Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow, the first game in the Underworld Dreams Anthology is expected later this Spring for Steam and the Nintendo Switch. You can now even

Today marks Day Two of the week-long Toy Fair 2022 celebration from Trick or Treat Studios, and today’s virtual reveals unleash brand new Leatherface figures for Chainsaw fans. The 1/6 scale Leatherface line brings the horror icon to your toy shelf with three different figures, as seen in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part

As you may recall, Jamie Lee Curtis will be directing a horror movie for Blumhouse titled Mother Nature, and she has also co-written the graphic novel adaptation for Titan Comics! The press release explains tonight, “Titan Comics is thrilled to be publishing Mother Nature (Fall 2022) the terrifying debut eco-horror graphic novel by Hollywood legend Jamie Lee

Just a few short days after Arrow Video announced their UK release, we’ve learned that the Bernard Rose horror classic Candyman is also getting a 4K upgrade from Scream Factory! Candyman buzzes on to 4K for the first time in the US & Canada on May 24! A new 4K master of the original negative,

Bokeh Game Studio has released more details regarding their upcoming game Slitterhead in the form of a two-part Q&A session. The first part, moderated by Bokeh’s business development manager and producer William Yohei Hart, features Bokeh Game Studio CEO and creator Keiichiro Toyama, CTO and game director Junya Okura, and COO and producer Kazunobu Sato.

With LKA’s Martha is Dead now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC (read Harrison’s take on the game here), you’re probably wondering just what Sony had LKA cut in order for the game to be published on the PlayStation. There’s been speculation ever since the news came out as to what’s missing, and

As of last week, the 1980s anthology series “Freddy’s Nightmares” is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox streaming service, with all 44 episodes available now! Screambox is currently the ONLY place you can officially watch the Robert Englund-hosted “Freddy’s Nightmares,” which to date has still never been released on DVD or Blu-ray. Based on

Sony’s Marvel vampire movie Morbius is finally on the way in the coming months, the dark anti-hero tale set to bring Jared Leto into the same world that Venom calls home. Daniel Espinosa‘s (Life) Morbius takes a bite out of theaters on April 1, 2022. You can watch a new featurette below, which briefly digs into the lore

As you may recall, The Sexton Single Malt became an official partner of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” last year, and this year we’re getting a “Walking Dead”-branded whiskey! In collaboration with AMC Networks and “The Walking Dead,” The Sexton® Single Malt has unveiled an exclusive, co-branded bottle to commemorate the final season of the show. “Featuring a

The next “The Walking Dead” spinoff series from AMC is an anthology titled “Tales of the Walking Dead,” and we’ve learned this week that Olivia Munn (The Predator) has signed on. Variety reports that Olivia Munn has joined the cast alongside Danny Ramirez (The Falcon & The Winter Soldier), Loan Chabanol (Fading Gigolo), Embeth Davidtz

Officially titled Meg 2: The Trench, Jason Statham will be back as Jonas Taylor in director Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, Rebecca, In the Earth) upcoming sequel to the 2018 action-horror movie The Meg, and more casting news has arrived. THR reports that Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Skyler Samuels (“Scream Queens”) and Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood)

A vampire movie is in the works over at Netflix titled Smile, Deadline has announced today, which is being compared to, of all things, Nicolas Winding Refn’s brilliant film Drive. Said to be “in the spirit” of Drive, William McGregor (“His Dark Materials”) will be directing Netflix’s Smile, which will be produced by Matt Reeves

Searchlight Pictures, the specialty distributor behind David Bruckner’s The Night House and Radio Silence’s Ready or Not, is serving up their next horror entree, Mimi Cave‘s batshit insane Fresh, which streams exclusively on Hulu next month. Fresh looks at “the horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.” There’s a bit